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Paragraph 1

The recognition of an adoption includes recognition of—

(a)

the legal parent-child relationship between the child and his or her adoptive parents;

(b)

parental responsibility of the adoptive parents for the child;

(c)

the termination of a pre-existing legal relationship between the child and his or her mother and father, if the adoption has this effect in the Contracting State where it was made.